@eigenrobot @acczibit ? Not sure, who else is knowledgable about ithttps://twitter.com/chronovision3/status/1300582473882120193?s=20 …
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all books about economics are bad :D what do you want to get out of it, roughly?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @acczibit
Just to understand what the hell everyone is talking about, I suppose. In general what all the important terms mean, how they are related to one another and what the causal relationships can be (I suppose the last one is the reason for all quarreling?)
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Reasons for inflations, recessions, high unemployment etc, and what measures are usually taken against them? Or, the apparently really obvious stuff that, the real basics like: What influences the GDP, why does it always need to grow etc?
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Why do some countries fail while others enjoy great comforts? Or to get to the root, I couldn't even remotely explain why some countries do better than others, it seems natural to me that everything just works, you know?
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Replying to @zeit_sinn @Chronovision3 and
A lot of really good questions! This stuff gets to the heart of a ton of core philosophical debates beyond just economics into history and philosophy and psychology and basically everything. And perspectives change on it a ton: answers would be very different 500 years ago.
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Replying to @coinaday1 @Chronovision3 and
So, various responses: there's not going to be a single good source most likely, if for no other reason than it's hard to address all the various perspectives fairly in one work (e.g. present a mercantilist interpretation as well as Keynesian and Austrian and Marxist).
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Replying to @coinaday1 @Chronovision3 and
Inherently then, as already seen by Eigen's response, it'll be a ton of books giving you parts you piece together. I highly recommend some general histories as well just for a "rise and fall" flavor. These have their own embedded views but give a historical sense beyond theory.
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Replying to @coinaday1 @Chronovision3 and
One book I would rarely recommend but I think might be useful for you to try: Guns, Germs, and Steel. While I don't necessarily think its conclusions are right, it does make an attempt at answering such broad questions so gives a flavor for such an ambitious view.
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Oh good choice Wrong but useful!
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Yeah I've read that many people disagree with that book, so I'm a little bit off-put to read something that many have claimed as being wrong. Just give me all the right answers and none of the wrong ones, s'il vous plait?
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Replying to @zeit_sinn @Chronovision3 and
Ha! Good one! Well in that case, just read everything Heinlein wrote and take anything said by Lazarus Long or Mike Smith as gospel.
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